#Brain

"Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program."

"A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say."

"My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association."

"As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon."

"There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing."

"The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen."

"I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift."

"...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful,"it will be more likely to be recalled in the future."

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

"My clone will have my mind, but I don’t mind. Two heads are better than one—especially when those two are one and the same."

"To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."

"If football players wanted to protect their brains from injury they’d wear astronaut helmets. After all, astronauts have massive IQ’s, so wearing their protective headgear seems like a smart choice."

"When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief."

"I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly."

"The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning."

"I love when my cat crushes his forehead into mine like my skull is an empty beer can. But it’s not—there’s still a sip left."

"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."

"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."